Stuffetta of Diana and Actaeon
Title
Stuffetta of Diana and Actaeon
Creator
Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, called Parmigianino
Source
Fontanellato: Castello Rocca Sanvitale
Publisher
Gian Galeazzo Sanvitale and Paola Gonzaga
Date
c.1523–24
Contributor
Dr. Adam Rudolphi
Format
painting
Language
In a band, beginning at the right of the doorway:
AD DIANAM / DIC DEA SI MISERUM SORS HUC ACTEONA DUXIT A TE CUR CANIBUS / TRADITUR ESCA SUIS NON NISI MORTALES ALIQUo / PRO CRIMINE PENAS FERRE LICET: TALIS NEC DECET IRA / DEAS
[To Diana: Tell me, goddess, if Fate led hither the wretched Actaeon, why was he handed over as a mere morsel to his own dogs? It is not permitted except that mortals should pay the penalty for some crime, nor is such anger befitting to goddesses.]
AD DIANAM / DIC DEA SI MISERUM SORS HUC ACTEONA DUXIT A TE CUR CANIBUS / TRADITUR ESCA SUIS NON NISI MORTALES ALIQUo / PRO CRIMINE PENAS FERRE LICET: TALIS NEC DECET IRA / DEAS
[To Diana: Tell me, goddess, if Fate led hither the wretched Actaeon, why was he handed over as a mere morsel to his own dogs? It is not permitted except that mortals should pay the penalty for some crime, nor is such anger befitting to goddesses.]
Type
Still Image
Original Format
fresco
Files
Citation
Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, called Parmigianino, “Stuffetta of Diana and Actaeon,” Race, Sexuality, and Gender in Early Modern Italian Art, accessed February 22, 2025, http://othersinearlymodernitaly.artinterp.org/omeka/items/show/266.